Word: dieselization
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...serve as the precedent in future negotiations between the railroads and the telegraphers. More important yet, last week's ruling will weaken the hand of all rail unions in their fight to defy the recommendations of the presidential board, which last February urged the elimination of 40,000 diesel-locomotive "firemen" and other unneeded workers on U.S. railroads...
Turnpike Authority plans also call for breakdown trucking terminal at the Cambridge St. exit in the old Brighton railroad yards. Massachusetts law prohibits diesel cabs from having any more than one trailer except on the Turnpike...
...Pattern. For the railroad industry, the North Western strike was likely to prove a turning point. Whatever settlement results from it will go far towards setting a pattern not only for railroad telegraphers but also for all other technologically obsolete railroad employees-including 45,000 "firemen" who ride diesel locomotives on the nation's freight trains and in switching yards...
...Aeronautics Board, which tend to approve mergers only if one of the partners is headed for bankruptcy. Just how vigorous the quarrel between unions and railroad management can be was shown last week, when the railroads proposed to lay off 40,000 firemen who, they say, are unnecessary aboard diesel locomotives. The five railroad brotherhoods countered by threatening to call a paralyzing nationwide strike. At week's end, the showdown was averted when the unions won a court order temporarily enjoining the railroads from firing the firemen...
Siemens is Germany's largest private employer, with 207.000 workers at home and another 28,000 around the world. But it is more than it seems to be. The Siemens reach extends from the Arctic. where its diesel engines drive icebreakers, to Saudi Arabia, where its engineers are setting up a huge communications network. Moscow's Bolshoi Theater is lighted by a Siemens electrical system: the phone calls of Indonesia's President Sukarno go through Siemens switchboards...